BISWAJIT PAUL

 

SUMMARY

 

·         Over 12 years of experience in design and development of information systems for various commercial / Data Warehousing applications (7 years of experience in US)

·         7 years extensive expertise in designing, coding and testing of Data Warehousing applications using ETL tool DataStage / Parallel Extender 7.5, Ascential 7.5/6.0,

·         Experience in ORACLE RDBMS 8.x, IBM DB2, Teradata, UNIX (HP, AIX, SCO), Unix Shell scripts, Introduction to Informatica (PowerCenter 5.0) and Cognos V 7.0, Autosys scheduling tool.

·         Excellent analytical, logical and programming skills

·         Capacity for Work - Meeting Deadlines

·         Diagnostic Ability - Ability to go to the core of the problem

·         Expertise in Trouble shooting the problems

·         Willing to learn and adaptable to new challenges, self-motivated, a quick learner and team player.

·         Excellent communication skills, with ability to interact with end-users, managers, and technical personnel successfully

 

EDUCATION

 

·         MCA - Masters in Computer Applications, from Jorhat Engineering College, India

(Awarded National Merit Scholarship)

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

 

·         Data Warehousing, ETL Tool DataStage / Ascential

·         Oracle Developer 2000 Training in STG, Delhi

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

State Street Bank, Boston, MA

DataStage Analyst

March 2005 to Present

 

EDW / Crystal Conversion:  State Street is the world's leading provider of services to institutional investors. Their clients are some of the world's most sophisticated and influential investors and have a broad array of complex and specialized servicing requirements. They offer three core capabilities - investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading - that can be used independently or together to boost clients' business strategies

 

Responsibilities

·         Working in Data Warehouse project EDW and Crystal to IBM Ascential Conversion.

·         Involved in designing, implementing and developing processes

·         Applying expertise in process skills from Meta Data design, Data Mapping,

·         Physical design, Coding, deployment in a full SDLC environment.

·         Decoding Crystal Info reports and converting them to IBM Ascential Parallel jobs.

·         Writing AutoSys JILs to schedule jobs.

 

Environment: IBM DataStage, Parallel Extender 7.5, DB2, Unix Shell Script, Crystal Info (Report Designer, Query Designer), AutoSys (Job Scheduling tool)

 

 

 

Anheuser Busch Companies, St. Louis, MO

ETL Consultant

December 2003 to Jan 2005

 

Enterprise Data Warehouse-BUDNET Remediation: Anheuser-Busch's operations and resources are focused on beer, adventure park entertainment and packaging. Anheuser-Busch also has interests in aluminum beverage container recycling, malt production, rice milling, real estate development, turf farming, metalized paper label printing and transportation services.

 

Anheuser Busch has Enterprise Data Warehouse on top of Teradata. To improve the performance, team is responsible for remediating from Star schema to Normilised ER model. Worked  for Wipro Technologies.

 

Responsibilities

·         Design and Architecture, Standards and Guidelines for ETL, and Data Extract Strategy.

·         Used DataStage Manager to create metadata repository.

·         Responsible for Design, Review and Testing of ETL jobs using DataStage Ver 6.0.1 to extract data from the source systems and load to the target.

·         Coordinate with offshore group.

·         Unit Testing and System Testing.

 

Environment: Ascential DataStage 6.0.1 (Administrator, Manager, Designer, Director) on IBM AIX 5.1, Windows NT.

 

 

 

JPMorgan Chase, NY, NY

ETL Consultant

April 2002 to December 2003

 

JPMC DATA WAREHOUSING: JPMorgan Chase is a major participant in the strongest, most vibrant capital markets in the world, operating across various businesses and geographies. They are leading global financial services firm with assets of $742 billion. The firm is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Major functional areas of JPMorgan are Investment Bank, Research, Private Equity, Investment Management, Private Banking, Treasury and Securities Services and Middle Market. Worked  for Syntel India.

 

Responsibilities

·         Implementation Architecture, Standards and Guidelines for ETL, and Data Exchange Strategy for JPMorgan Chase Data warehousing.

·         Designed the data warehouse using Star Schema approach.

·         Responsible for Coding, Review and Testing of ETL jobs using DataStage Ver 5.2. to transfer the data from the source systems to Data warehouse.

·         Involved in backend programming using SQL, PL/SQL and Tuning

·         Used administrative version of Cognos to create Catalogs, Impromptu reports.

 

Environment: Ascential DataStage 6.0 (Administrator, Manager, Designer, Director) on IBM AIX 5.1, Oracle8 database on IBM AIX 5.1, Windows NT.

 

 

Suntory Water Group, Atlanta, GA, through H2ORACLE

Datastage / Ascential Designer / Administrator

August 2001 to March 2002

 

Suntory Water Group is a Spring Water Company. Their business is to deliver drinking water. The operating unit, which delivers water at doorstep, is known as DIRECT DELIVERY. The other unit, RETAIL, delivers water to the retail stores.

 

Responsibilities

·         Collection of user requirement, understanding business rules strategies and standards.

·         Design and Development of customized modules.

·         Used DataStage Manager to create metadata repository.

·         Created the schema objects, dimensions and fact tables for the data warehouse schema.

·         Used DataStage/Ascential Designer 4.1 for designing jobs for data warehouse.

·         Development using PL/SQL, (Database triggers, Procedures, Functions, Views, Sequences, and Synonyms).

·         Used administrative version and user version of Discoverer to create reports to be accessed by end user layer.

·         System Implementation testing.

 

Environment: DataStage / Ascential 4.1 (Administrator, Manager, Designer, Director), Oracle8i database, APPS 11i, Windows NT.

 

 

Eli Lilly, Morristown, NJ, USA            

Datastage / ETL Developer

June 1998 to July 2001

 

Lilly US Interface / Data Scrubbing for ETMS (Electronic Territory Mgmt System): These are highly data intensive Projects capturing pharmaceutical sales representative’s data (which are maintained on Laptops and other hand held devices) to an operational database and from there, the data is further pushed to the data warehouse and finally from there to the respective Data Marts. Transferring of data was done through flat files via ftp. There is a regular exchange of data between the Laptop and the centralized database at base. Some of the third party data through flat file was also been exchanged at a regular basis. This data is pushed to the data warehouse using DataStage/ Ascential 4.1. These Projects are part of Dendrite’s on going initiative to provide a wide range of sales force effectiveness solutions to nearly 10,000 pharmaceutical sales representatives worldwide.

 

As a part of Database management for the project of Data Scrubbing, responsible for database modeling, tablespace designing, creation of users and roles, writing scripts for database administration (backup, recovery) and application tuning.

 

Responsibilities

·         Writing PL/SQL code for Packages, subprograms, database triggers.

·         Performance optimization of SQL queries.

·         Writing shell script for automating the ETL (extract-transformation-load) processes.

·         Design and Development of the Application Architecture for the new system.

·         Install and administer Ascential DataStage/ Universe database.

·         Creating DataStage jobs for Extract of data from the database tables into flat files and loading data in flat files to database tables.

·         Create and maintain Metadata and Version Control.

·         Monitoring the ETL process through Datastage’s director log.

·         Performing and fine-tuning of the database and user related statements/programs.

·         Used analyze table, Explain plan utility for performance and optimization.

·         Developing and managing consistent database Environments that are flexible, reliable and facilitate application development, data delivery and data management.

·         Database size estimation for future needs and upgrades.

·         Optimization and performance tuning of the database.

·         Actively monitoring the changes to the DB Environment to increase efficiency, improve reliability and minimize operating expenses.

·         Designing and reviewing the Backup and Restore procedures.

 

Environment: DataStage / Ascential 4.1 (Administrator, Manager, Designer, Director), MKS Toolkit, Windows NT, Oracle8 database on HP UX.

 

 

New York State Senate, ALBANY, NY USA

Programmer / Analyst

July 1997 to June 1998

 

New York State Senate Financial Mgmt System: The SASS caters to the administrative needs of the New York State Senate. It supports departments viz. Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Payroll/Personnel, etc. The project required conversion of the Financial Management System from Ingress on VAX to Oracle 8 and Developer/2000 (Forms and Reports).

 

Responsibilities

·         As a Programmer / Analyst, migrated Financial Management System for New York State Senate Administrative Support Services (SASS) for New York Senate, Albany, NY.

·         Formulation of Migration Strategies and Standards.

·         Design and Development of the Application Architecture for the new system

·         Perform DBA activities

·         Development using Forms 5.0 and Reports 3.0

·         Provide Training to Client on Oracle 8 and Developer/2000

·         System Implementation

 

Environment: Windows NT, Oracle8 database, HP UX, Developer 2000, Forms 5.0,Report 3.0.

 

 

Ministry of Finance, CGA, India

Systems Analyst

November 1996 to June 1997

 

ACMS -Civil Accounts Cadre Management System: This user-friendly package provides information about officers in a government office. It keeps track of personnel details, training undertaken, place of posting, security, leave, gratuity, and welfare of officers. Details of confidential reports of officers are kept encrypted in tables to ensure secrecy and confidentiality. Application-level security is also provided to ensure access to data only to authorized persons.

 

Responsibilities

·         As a Systems Analyst, developed a Civil Accounts Cadre Management System (CACMS), for Controller General of Accounts.

·         Interviewing users, collecting user requirements

·         Identifying basic functions, analyzing the present system

·         Design and Development of the Application Architecture for the new system

·         Designer/2000 (ERD, FHD, MSD, MD, DD) for designing and documenting the system

·         Designer-generated forms and reports were finalized using Developer/2000

·         Development using Forms 4.5 and Reports 2.5

·         Provide Training to Client on Oracle 7 and Developer/2000

·         Installed Oracle Designer/2000 repository on the server and Designer/2000 on the client.

·         Created users, granted privileges, maintained roles, performed backups (Export/Import), and tuned Oracle

·         System Implementation

 

Environment: UnixWare 2.01, WINDOWS for WORKGROUPS, ORACLE 7.1, DESIGNER/2000, DEVELOPER/2000, FORMS 4.5, REPORTS 2.5.

 

 

Ministry of Finance, CGA, India

Systems Analyst

October 1995 to October 1996

 

GAINS- Government Account Info System: AINS receive account statements from various controllers of accounts for the government and different PAOs located in various locations. It converts data and loads it in Oracle tables, checks for errors, if any, validates and analyzes data received, consolidates expenditures incurred at different locations, and generates reports for DSS.

 

Responsibilities

·         As a Systems Analyst, developed Government Accounts Information Systems

·         Tuned UNIX, rebuild KERNEL

·         Installed Oracle and upgraded the application (including SQL*Forms 3.0 to 4.5)

·         Introduced a new module for quick query on specific heads of accounts, depending on search criteria. Used Developer/2000 (Forms 4.5 and Reports 2.5)

·         Reconstructed Oracle database to minimize disk fragmentation and improve performance and response time. Took cold as well as export backup of Database

·         Enhanced and generated complex reports using Pro*C

·         Monitored the performance of Oracle and tuned it. Also tuned application and Unix OS

·         Developed input and output forms with Forms 4.5

·         Generated new reports using Reports 2.5

·         Developed a new menu using Forms 4.5

·         System Implementation

 

Environment: SCO-UNIX, ORACLE 7.0, SQL*FORMS 3.0, SQL*REPORTWRITER 1.1.

 

 

Bank of Baroda, Bank of Madura, Panjab National Bank, India

DBA / Programmer Analyst

March 1995 to October 1995

 

ISBS- Integrated Standard Banking System: Implementation and enhancement of Integrated Standard Banking System (ISBS), a classic banking system of Tata Consultancy Services-TCS. Worked for TCS, ITO, Gulab Bhawan, New Delhi.

 

Responsibilities

·         Tuned and rebuild the KERNEL of HP-UX

·         Installed Oracle and ISBS

·         Migrated existing data to Oracle using SQL*Loader

·         Modified/ enhanced programs, changed the database schema

·         Trained DBAs for performing backups

·         Reconstructed the database to reduce disk fragmentation, and improved performance and response time

·         Installed Oracle 6.0 and 7.1 and installed ISBS

·         Eliminated errors modified and enhanced codes, tuned application, performed troubleshooting

 

Environment: HP-UX 10.x, ORACLE 7.0, SQL*FORMS 3.0, SQL*REPORTWRITER 1.1, PRO*C.